A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Grand Prix

[davewindsor]

I'm just guessing that the title of this thread was intended to be a variant of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [[film).

Peculiar sidenote: the DetroitYES censorbot corrupted the above link not once but twice due to its Yankee Underscore Tango ban. The link had two occurrences of a word ending with "Y" followed by a word beginning with "T."

TinyURL.com to the rescue!

Yes, I've seen it and I noticed the similar titles, but that was a fictional, musical "comedy". This was real. Just because the titles are similar, I don't understand how this is a "comedy" like that musical. What's so funny about it? What happened sounds quite serious to me.

[Gannon]

Wow. You literalists have to read the whole damn definition of a word before going off on your fishing rants.

Let me help you...from dictionary.com...1. providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.

2. attempting to amuse; facetious: Did you really mean that or were you just being funny?

3. warranting suspicion; deceitful; underhanded: We thought there was something funny about those extra charges.

4. Informal. insolent; impertinent: Don't get funny with me, young man!

5. curious; strange; peculiar; odd: Her speech has a funny twang.

The cues are hidden within the third paragraph, where I repeated the word ODD twice. It was all odd...we were not amused to have to consider heading for cover from friendly fire.

That said, it IS humorously funny that someone thought they could get away with a robbery directly across the street from a shit-ton of bored officers of the law. I'm quite sure they were looking to grab a big bag of cash from the payday loan agent...Fridays at the end of a month are paytime for a load of folks, employed or on the dole.

If anyone got shot or worse, I would not call it funny. So far, I've heard nothing that deflates the humor of their ill timing.

The parking lot of the party store and gas station next door were filled with state cop blues and a few Detroit cop cars within a few minutes of the gunshots...and Conservation officers shut down the next two blocks north of the incident. They even had a bird in the sky...I wish we could get some followup by the media...but not unlike the murder within the SuperDuperBowl 'safe zone', I'm sure this is too tender for the Indy race crowd. Too close to their adrenaline party.